Summary

Chapter 18 opens with an email about setting routines and getting help. Francie is in a bookstore and finds Charlie’s debut novel and thinks about how they have been fighting. Francie overhears the news identifying Francie as one of the women in the photograph from the Jolly Llama. Francie buys Charlie’s book and leaves. On the sidewalk, Francie sees Winnie being hounded by the press. Francie joins Winnie in Winnie’s apartment and Winnie explains that she hasn’t responded to Francie’s texts because she does not know what to say. Winnie finally tells Francie to appreciate what Francie has and asks Francie to leave. Winnie is later brought in for questioning.

Chapter 19 returns to the first-person narrative. The mother remembers flashes from a c-section. She and Joshua are going on the run and she has a gun.

Chapter 20 opens...